Sigma (σ) from sums of unequal size samples, a conjecture: Heterogeneous remote servers, over the Internet: Statistics for manufacturing processes

Research into integrating the concept of the internet of things (IoT) into smart factories has accelerated, leading to the emergence of various smart factory solutions. Most ideas, however, focus on the automation and integration of processes in factory, rather than organic cooperation among mobile assets (e.g., the workers and manufactured products) and fixed manufacturing equipment (e.g., press molds, computer numerical controls, painting). Additionally, it is difficult to apply smart factory and IoT designs to analog factories, because such a factory would require the integration of mobile assets and smart manufacturing processes. Thus, existing analog factories remain intact and smart factories are newly constructed. To overcome this disparity and to make analog factories compatible with smart technologies and IoT, we propose the opportunistic and location-based collaboration architecture (OLCA) platform, which allows for smart devices to be attached to workers, products, and facilities to enable the collaboration of location and event information in devices. Using this system, we can monitor workers’ positions and production processes in real-time to help prevent dangerous situations and better understand product movement. We evaluate the proposed OLCA platform’s performance while using a simple smart factory scenario, thus confirming its suitability.

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Design for Manufacturability via Agent Interaction

Volume 1: Design for Manufacturing Conference ◽

10.1115/96-detc/dfm-1302 ◽

1996 ◽

Author(s):

H. Robert Frost ◽

Mark R. Cutkosky

Keyword(s):

Design For Manufacturability ◽

The Internet ◽

Manufacturing Processes ◽

Design Rules ◽

On Demand ◽

Design And Manufacturing ◽

Agent Interaction ◽

Procedural Code ◽

Feature Based ◽

Deposition Processes

Abstract We describe an approach for making the capability of manufacturing processes manifest to designers starting with the earliest stages of geometry specification. The approach involves a dialogue among design and manufacturing agents over the Internet. The dialogue focuses on the specification and exchange of process capability models for establishing “design rules on-demand” to ensure manufacturability. The models include both declarative knowledge and, for those aspects of the process that are difficult to represent declaratively, platform-independent procedural code which is automatically loaded onto the designers’ machines. The approach is being implemented using agents, written in the Java2 language, which exchange feature-based capability models. The approach is being tested initially on machining and shape-deposition processes.

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Sustainability Benefits Analysis of Cyber-Manufacturing Systems

Volume 2B: Advanced Manufacturing ◽

10.1115/imece2020-23231 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Zhengyi Song ◽

Young Moon

Keyword(s):

Manufacturing Systems ◽

Sustainability Assessment ◽

The Internet ◽

Manufacturing Processes ◽

Self Monitoring ◽

Narrow Scope ◽

System Service ◽

Assessment Approach ◽

Service Oriented ◽

Factory Of The Future

Abstract Cyber-Manufacturing System (CMS) is a vision for the factory of the future, where manufacturing processes and physical components are seamlessly integrated with computational processes to provide agile, adaptive, and scalable manufacturing services. Functional elements of CMS are digitized, registered, and shared with users and stakeholders through various computer networks and the Internet. CMS incorporates recent advances in the Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, Cyber-Physical System, Service-Oriented Technologies, Modeling and Simulation, Sensor Networks, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, and Advanced Manufacturing Processes. CMS possesses intelligence such as self-monitoring, self-adjustment, self-prediction, self-allocation, self-configuration, self-scalability, self-remediating, and self-reusing. Such intelligent capabilities enable CMS to contribute to manufacturing sustainability. However, prior studies are limited in addressing a narrow scope of CMS or in covering only a subset of sustainability dimensions. This paper addresses the research gap by developing a holistic CMS infrastructure and adopting a Distance-to-Target based sustainability assessment approach to measure the sustainability benefits of CMS. To illustrate how the infrastructure and metrics are used to analyze the sustainability benefits of CMS, an example case is presented. The results show that CMS can deliver substantial sustainability benefits through increased productivity, profitability & energy efficiencies, and reduction of working-in-process (WIP) inventory levels & logistics costs.

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Displacement and Reinforcement Effects of the Internet and Other Media as Sources of Advertising Information

Journal of Advertising Research ◽

10.1017/s0021849904040073 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 44 (1) ◽

pp. 126-142 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

JAMES C. TSAO ◽

STANLEY D. SIBLEY

Keyword(s):

The Internet ◽

Advertising Information

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A hitchhiker’s guide to microscopy and microanalysis using telecommunications, e-mail, and the Internet

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100169687 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 52 ◽

pp. 390-391 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nestor J. Zaluzec

Keyword(s):

The Internet ◽

Information Superhighway ◽

The World ◽

Exchange Information ◽

On Line ◽

Computer Based ◽

Software And Hardware ◽

Communication Software ◽

Basic Ideas ◽

E Mail

The Information SuperHighway, Email, The Internet, FTP, BBS, Modems, : all buzz words which are becoming more and more routine in our daily life. Confusing terminology? Hopefully it won't be in a few minutes, all you need is to have a handle on a few basic concepts and terms and you will be on-line with the rest of the "telecommunication experts". These terms all refer to some type or aspect of tools associated with a range of computer-based communication software and hardware. They are in fact far less complex than the instruments we use on a day to day basis as microscopist's and microanalyst's. The key is for each of us to know what each is and how to make use of the wealth of information which they can make available to us for the asking. Basically all of these items relate to mechanisms and protocols by which we as scientists can easily exchange information rapidly and efficiently to colleagues in the office down the hall, or half-way around the world using computers and various communications media. The purpose of this tutorial/paper is to outline and demonstrate the basic ideas of some of the major information systems available to all of us today. For the sake of simplicity we will break this presentation down into two distinct (but as we shall see later connected) areas: telecommunications over conventional phone lines, and telecommunications by computer networks. Live tutorial/demonstrations of both procedures will be presented in the Computer Workshop/Software Exchange during the course of the meeting.

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